Spectacle-lens case



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SPEGTAGLELENS GASE.

' Patented Feb. '7

PATENT- OFFICE.

' GEORGE D. EDMONDSON, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

SPECTACLE- LENS CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersPatent No. 253,356, dated February '7, 1882.

Application filed April 2 5, 1881. (N model.) 7

v To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown thatI, GEORGE D. EDMONDSON, of Detroit, county of Wayne, State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Spectacle-Lens Cases; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a-part 0 this specification.

My invention consists in a lens-package formed of an envelope adapted to hold two lenses side by side, and having two transverse the same with a double crease across its middle and having a set of lenses within it. Fig.

3 is a view of the envelope folded together along both the central creases. Fig. 4 isa case containing the said separate packages. Figs. 5 and 6 represent the package formerly used. Fig. 7 shows the old form of case and the method of ascertaining the contents of any package.

Heretofore it has been customary, as shown in Figs. 5, 6, and 7, to inclose a set of lenses in an ordinary envelope, thenfold the latter transversely across the middle line, so that the fold shall present a sharp edge; and it has been customary to print. or write the descriptionof the lens upon the flat surface of the envelope, as shown. When these lens packages were placed ina larger case for the convenience of the dealer, the sharp edges of the envelopes presented upward, as shown in Fig. 7, and there being no place at this edge to mark the contents, the latter marks had to be written or printed down on the side, and were only rendered visible by the dealer pushing aside the successive envelopes until he exposed and discovered the one bearing the desired description.

It is the object of thisinvention to correct this difficulty and render the description always visible whenever the case is open.

To this end A represents an ordinary enher, description, &c., of the contained lenses.

When these separate packages are placed in a box, as shown in Fig. 4, their upper surfaces form a level top, and the marks upon the successive packages are always visible without handling the packages themselves, the same as though they had been written or printed upon the separate lines of a continuous strip of paper.'

The advantages of this improvement will be apparent at a glance,for where frequently many dozens,or even hundreds ofthese lens-packages are grouped together in'a case and subjected to constant handling and frequent changes by sales, 850., it is difficult to find what is wanted and becomes a source of great annoyance to the dealer, while by this improvement all the difficulty is at once overcome.

In making these packages the envelopes folded the print will occupy the proper place,

and the envelope may, if desired, he simulta- V neonsly indented or creased, so as to mark the place for and facilitate the folding.

By the term envelope Iwould have it understood that I mean any ordinary envelope or GEO. D. EDMONDSON.

Witnesses:

V W. M. PORTER,

HENRY F. QUELcH. 

